Ancient Oaks 100
Titusville FL
Dec. 8-9 2001
Monica Scholz, 34, CAN 22:23 (course record M/F)
Don Jans, 69 31:38 (1st male)
Stu Gleman, 58 31:39
8 starters
Monica Scholz of Ontario extended her own record for the most 100
mile races completed in a year with 22. She plans to run one more
race next week in San Diego to wrap up her season with 23. This
breaks the record of 20 set last year by Hans Dieter Weisshaar of
Germany. This was also Monica's eighth win as first female
and her third consecutive win overall for both men and women. (see
http://www.run100s.com/monica.txt ). Today she broke the course
record for both men and women of 22:46 set by Mike Dobies last year.
She was 9 hours ahead of her nearest competitor.
Don Jans was the oldest runner at age 69, and also the first male
finisher with 31:38. He ran the last several miles with walking
sticks and fell several times. He was followed one minute later by
race director Stu Gleman.
The race consists of 37 laps of a 2.75 mile trail loop through a
lush forest, flat to gently rolling with some roots but no rocks.
The course is not lit at night, so runners must use flashlights.
There are 4.5 miles of 10 inch wide planks over the muddy sections.
The weather was 65 to 80 F with 80-100% humidity, mostly sunny with
rain showers at night. The race was advertised as "no fee, no aid,
no awards, no wimps", although Stu provided an excellent variety
of food, better than most races that charge $100-200 entry fees.
5 of 8 runners did not finish within the 32 hour time limit,
which was from 7:00 AM Saturday to 3:00 PM Sunday.
Matt Mahoney 90 miles in 30:53
Jim Sullivan 52 miles in 13:29
Dan Bratches 49 miles in 13:37
Peter Bennett 44 miles in 11:33
Yen Nguyen 41 miles in 11:33
-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com